The only similarities between ESO and ES is the lore. From what I have seen it has the standard MMO engine.

Imagine WoW with ES lore instead of Warcraft lore. If you are into that, it might work out well for you. As for me, I wanted ES gameplay not WoW gameplay.

To each his own though, there is a plethora of people that enjoy current MMO model. I personally hope that it fails, and thus teaches the companies that we want innovation, not another reskinned and slightly tweaked MMO engine.

screw that. Im gonna sit on my ass in my warm house with a bowl of Maple brown sugar oatmeal and a cup of coffee while writing a review and wasting time responding to posts on TPU thats a way better idea. Besides my battle axe needs to be repaired and i sold my armor for hookers and skooma.

dont feel bad BrooksyX niether have I, im trying to get this review done before my power cuts out due to the 30 inches of snow we are expected to get .

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haha I don't feel to bad. Just been busy lately, I moved from my parents house into my friends house this past weekend and I have been getting all settled in. A couple nights ago we spent all night wiring the house with cat 5e through the ceiling and then last night I went out to dinner with a girl ive been starting to see. So I am sure I will get plenty of time to play soon but a lot going on with the real life right now.

screw that. Im gonna sit on my ass in my warm house with a bowl of Maple brown sugar oatmeal and a cup of coffee while writing a review and wasting time responding to posts on TPU thats a way better idea. Besides my battle axe needs to be repaired and i sold my armor for hookers and skooma.

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You guys are cracking me up this morning!

In all seriousness, you could try geocaching when the weather lets up. Sure, there aren't epic battles, but you do find some cool loot sometimes and it's a pretty fun way to spend a Saturday.

As far as ESO goes, I signed up for the beta with an "Above Average" projected acceptance. Haven't heard back yet, but depending on how it plays I may play it for a while. Grouping up with friends and running around exploring the open world(the way only BethSoft knows how to make one) seems like a ton of fun, even it is more MMO than RPG.
As long as it's more first-person hack-and-slash than mashing number keys to cast spells/abilities, I think I'll be happy with it.

haha I don't feel to bad. Just been busy lately, I moved from my parents house into my friends house this past weekend and I have been getting all settled in. A couple nights ago we spent all night wiring the house with cat 5e through the ceiling and then last night I went out to dinner with a girl ive been starting to see. So I am sure I will get plenty of time to play soon but a lot going on with the real life right now.

Appears that as soon as I try to go further up North in the map the game crashes, no matter which angle I try. I've deleted all my mods too, am using only Bethesda's HD addons, nothing else.

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A HA! So your getting it too! I could make no diagnosis. Are you using ENB? I tried using something called Hialgos GPU Boost but it has issues with the Suburb enb and the dude is looking into it. But you might be able to get it to work and it might help.http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/15123

I hope I'm not speaking too soon but I think I solved it. I had been running ugridstoload 9 and I changed it back to 5. So far I didn't have any CTD's (granted I played only a few minutes) but I had been having them within a minute or 2 before, making the game unplayable.

If you have modified ugrids, here's the procedure you have to follow to put it back at 5 (default). Follow this or you'll lose your saves!

1: Start the game with the current ugrids value..
2: Load the save game that you'd like to revert/change back.
3: Once the game is loaded, ALT+TAB or minimize the game.
4: Navigate to your Skyrim.ini file located typically in the documents/my games/skyrim/
5: Input the Ugrids value you'd like to use, DEFAULT is "5", otherwise if you want to go from 9 down to 7, put in 7.
6: Save the file and then maximize/tab back into skyrim that is already running.
7: hit the "~"/console key and type in "refreshini"
8: Save the game as a new save file.